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Fatal Accident, Taylor Swift Hangs With Jefferson Actress Top Local News

Other top headlines include a hit-and-run in Roxbury and a local author's new book.

All four occupants were ejected and two died after a Jeep Wrangler flipped over and came to rest about 100 yards off the roadway in a wooded area on Green Pond Road in Rockaway Township near the Jefferson border.

First, Chloe Scharf won the Best Actor Award at the Manhattan Film Festival for her role in “Nora,” a 15-minute film about a young girl with a terminal illness. Now, according to a report by NJ.com, she is hanging out with celebrities, including meeting her idol Taylor Swift.

Authorities are looking for a silver SUV with North Carolina license plates in connection with a hit-and-run accident that injured a Passaic County man and 12-year-old girl who were riding a motorcycle on Interstate 80 in Roxbury.

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The Jefferson Township author Julianne Grider has a magnet on her car advertising her current book, “Maybe This Life.” And she wants as many people as possible to see it.

The Ironman Triathlon isn’t just for men, even though its name might indicate otherwise. And Jefferson’s Jemila Najjar-Keith has proven that by placing 14th out of 48 women in her age group in the Lake Placid Ironman.

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It certainly seems as though Shawn McCarton and Karl Weiss, the local Appalchian Trail hikers, are enjoying the whole experience of hiking from Georgia to Maine on the trail.

The Class of 2012 graduated from Jefferson Township’s Junior Police Academy, with accolades all around.


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